Personal and Social Responsibility, Goal Orientations and Motivational Climate in Physical Education

Abstract

The aim of this research was the translation, the adaption in Greek language and the estimation of validity and reliability of Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire-PSRQ of Li, Wright, Rukavina, και Pickering (2008). Furthermore, to explore the relations between responsibility, goal orientations and motivational climate. Three hundred seventy two students of 5th and 6th grade from primary schools and also 1st and 2nd grade from middle school participated in this study. Translation and back-translation procedures were followed by analysis of item content. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed the same model structure with the theoretical of Li and his colleagues (2008), namely two factors which explained the 49.53% of statistical total variance (eigen-values: 5.44 & 1.49 for the first and the second factor respectively). Also, the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (EFA) indicated that the hypothesized factor structure provided an acceptable fit to the observed data (CFI = .952, RMSEA = .057). The internal reliability was measured by a Cronbach indicator and was acceptable both for «social responsibility» (α = .82) and «personal responsibility» (α = .76). Finally, a hierarchical regression analysis revealed that lesson satisfaction and task orientation were significantly contributing in predicting students’ social and personal responsibility.